I liked Command and Conquer when I was younger. As nowadays Realtime Strategy has become a niche and not much good games at the market i checked out the Early Access Version of „They are Billions“. Its worth a look:

Today we are announcing changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). While our goal remains to keep the YPP open to as many channels as possible, we recognize we need more safeguards in place to protect creator revenue across the YouTube ecosystem.

Under the new eligibility requirements announced today, your YouTube channel, untony, is no longer eligible for monetization because it doesn’t meet the new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. As a result, your channel will lose access to all monetization tools and features associated with the YouTube Partner Program on February 20, 2018 unless you surpass this threshold in the next 30 days. Accordingly, this email serves as 30 days notice that your YouTube Partner Program terms are terminated.

One of YouTube’s core values is to provide anyone the opportunity to earn money from a thriving channel. Creators who haven’t yet reached this new threshold can continue to benefit from our Creator Academy, our Help Center, and all the resources on the Creator Site to grow their channels. Once your channel reaches the new threshold, it will be reviewed to make sure it adheres to our policies and guidelines, and if so, monetization will be re-enabled.

As DASH-Mining becomes more and more unrentable (New ASIC-Miners, growing difficulty see screens below), I was looking for alternatives.

Dash GPU-Mining in June 2017:
Dash GPU-Mining in September 2017:

Hashflare 25 MH/s:

Dash Mining is not interessting for me anymore (dont want to buy expensive mining hw at this time).

Currently the only rentable Cryptocurrency for mining seem to be Monero. Also because it is more rentable to use CPU-Miners (in comparism to other Cryptocurrencies).

Not beeing forced to use GPU Miners (with AMD GPUs) to get coins is a big plus. I installed some miners on Linux-Systems (also virtualized). I poolmined (monerohash.com) for a few days with 5 CPU Miners. Here some results:

run the miner via
minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://monerohash.com:3333 -u 43dNQfaUGzbPCaa1rkW4z5H7aN5M27rLhaodZULXTtPbN7XMQxixzPC6ouB6F6NWxLSkMQ4QhTo8VhKRiBh1E9AZKudNxSv -p x
(you have to use your wallet id, if you want to leave the session start the miner with nohup command.

So I followed every step written in several tutorials (like Restoring with NORECOVERY before Mirroring etc.). It seem that sthg was missing because I always got the Error 927 which means cannot access database because it gets restored… Seems logic but for Mirroring-Setup Database have to be in NORECOVERY State (means its not accessible and state is „restoring“).

After several days of re-installing, researching i finally solved it, with installing Microsoft SQL Management Studio 2014. I did the same as before and it worked without a problem.

Last year I decided to make an experiment with youtube. I wanted to check out if I was able to earn money with it and get some values regarding how many views/clicks are neccessary to get some money.

To do so your youtube account have to qualify for monetarization / Youtube Partner Program.

Your channel have to have at least 10.000 views to qualify for this.

After activation of the monetarization program you have also to create a AdSense Account and link it with your Youtube account. After this you need to enable monetarization for your videos and hope for some clicks. If you reach 70€ they pay:

After this experiment I can say in 2017 – 200.000 monetarized views on your videos generates about 80€

To solve this problem get in to BIOS – Settings (System Setup, BIOS, UEFI, press F2, F10 on startup or check out the info for shortkey accessing System Settings on Startup. Inside this Settings-Menu access SATA-Configuration/Disk Configuration

(this image can differ depending on manufacturer)

It is necessary to switch to „IDE“ in SATA-Config so that Windows XP can recognize the Disk.

„I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.“Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864

„It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.“Immanuel Kant

„Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.“Immanuel Kant

„The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.“Bertrand Russel

„We don’t want to live under a world government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.“Dr. Robert Bowman

If you’re still running a VMWare Version < 6 you might know that VMWare is using a SQL-Express Database for its Management. This Express Edition has limits and if they are reached, nothing will work (inside VMWare Managment).

To purge the database (which runs into the License Limit…) do the following:

start SQL-Management Studio to access the database

Select top 200 rows for the dbo.VPX.Parameter table

Edit the Values of Event.MaxAge to 30,MaxAgeEnabled to true

Edit the Values Task.maxAge to 30 and task.MaxAgeEnabled to true

Last step is to run the stored procedure: dbo.cleanup_events_task_proc

Wait… this can take a while….

Since VMWare 6.0 they switched to Postgres Database, but afaik they still need a MS SQL-Database for the VMWare-Update Manager…